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Millennials get a bad rap in the workplace. From entitlement to job hopping, few employers around the country paint a positive picture of this generation’s work ethic. Before you bash the newest crop of college grads to enter the workforce, consider this: By 2020, it’s predicted that nearly half (46 ...

This year’s college graduates will have to be more creative to land a job they want. The unemployment rate for college graduates ages 22 to 27 fell to 5.6 percent in 2013 from 6.4 percent at the recession’s peak in 2009. Among 22-year-old degree holders who found jobs in the past three years, more ...

Whether you want to achieve something big or just make a small change in your working life, the path to any new experience or outcome begins when you know what you want. While that sounds straightforward, in reality it can be the hardest part of change because we often struggle to ...

Whether you run your own company or work for a great one, it’s important to always challenge the status quo and pursue constant improvement. Never let “that’s just how we’ve always done it” be a phrase that’s allowed in your workplace. At Kogan.com, our internal philosophy is, “There is always ...

Ah, to be a rentier! Gone are the days when Vladimir Lenin could rail against these “parasitic” capitalists for “clipping coupons” from their bonds while doing no work at all. Nowadays, with 10-year Treasury notes yielding a mere 2.5 percent and junk bonds barely 5 percent, investors who want a decent ...

Lazy, anti-social people: they’re your ultimate customers. To be assured of success today, create a service that appeals to people just active enough to push a button but too lazy to check their bank statements. Ideally, you should also ensure that customers can limit their interactions with other humans to ...

Budgeting is a hard financial habit to start and maintain. It’s like a following a diet: We typically know what to do to maintain a healthy lifestyle — eat right and exercise — but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for most of us. So yes, we know that we should budget each ...

2013 has been a great year for investors in the stock market, with gains of around 25 percent for the Dow Jones industrials (^DJI) capping off a five-year bull-market rally. Many investors who had the discipline to hold their stocks after the market’s plunge during the financial crisis in 2008 ...

Companies backed by private equity are supposed to grow, to increase in value, and to do so quickly. They must be primed to implement strategy, manage costs, boost revenue, and ultimately provide the best enterprise value for owners. Everything is about improving strategy and operations to maximize the return on investment. ...

The evidence is in: According to a number of studies from banks and investment firms over the past decade, women make better investors than men. The most recent, from the tax and advisory firm Rothstein Kass, found that hedge funds run by by women outperformed those managed by men by ...